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The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 10thFor the Calendar!
For the Calendar!
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Doors for the door God! Calendars for the calendar throne!
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Jeremy:When my wife and I made the decision to move to the UK earlier this year, we both began looking forward to spending more time with family, seeing the sights around London, and in my case…finally getting into Warhammer. (For those interested, I put Warhammer on my list of “great British culture to consume,” right alongside Judge Dredd and Red Dwarf.)
Don’t get me wrong - I’ve always known bits and pieces regarding Warhammer, since I dabble heavily in the tabletop RPG space and wargaming is only a few steps down the hall. But while I’ve got PDFs of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Wrath & Glory on my computer, I’ve never run them. Nor have I had the chance to fully embrace the fanaticism that comes with painting a bunch of overpriced space marines or delving into the billions of Black Library books that seem to encapsulate every genre under the sun. Honestly, if we’re to break things down even further, I’m more drawn to TheOld Worldand all of its mohawk dwarves instead of the solarscapes of space facism that you get with 40k. But there’s no denying that for better or for worse, Warhammer’s futuristic variant is clearly the more popular side of Games Workshop’s plastic crack empire - and sometimes all it takes to alter one’s biases is a good CRPG.
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Owlcat’s Rogue Trader does just that. I’m still in the early hours, since the final version of the game just became playable only a few days ago and I never had time to touch the beta. But as Edwin said in our impressedreview-in-progress, this is an RPG that feels genuinely epic, from the choral echoes accompanying its title screen to the fact that all of my noble’s abilities revolve around buffing, ordering, and occasionally sacrificing all of the other meat shields on the battlefield that solely exist to keep her out of harm’s way. (It’s always easy to choose your origin in a game like this when your skills boast stellar names like “You. Serve. Me.")
Lead a squad in service of the Imperium of Man, get free holidays to colonise far-off worlds and beat the crud out of their inhabitants! It’s a life. |Image credit:Owlcat
